νηστ-εύω · nēst-euō — LSJ
fast
fast, Ar. Av. 1519, Th. 949, Ev.Matt. 6.16, etc.; νηστεύσαντες, opp. ἐδηδοκότες, Arist. PA 676a1.
2 abstain from
c. gen., abstain from, κακότητος Emp. 144.
The corpus record
νηστ-εύω
nesteuo
fast, abstain from
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Where it lives
- Mark 6 · 5.45/10k
- Matthew 8 · 4.46/10k
- Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
- Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
- Regnorum II 5 · 3.09/10k
- Thesmophoriazusae 2 · 2.84/10k
- Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
- Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
- Luke 4 · 2.07/10k
- Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
- Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k
- Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- νηστεύομεν · nēsteuomen Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1120)
- νηστεύωμεν · nēsteuōmen Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 762)
- νηστεύει · nēsteuei Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 749)
- νηστεῦσαι · nēsteusai Aristotle, Economics 1347b (DIORISIS sentence 170)
- νηστεῦσαι · nēsteusai Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 58)
- νηστευόντων · nēsteuontōn New Testament, Acts 13.2 (DIORISIS sentence 440)
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Where it came from
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